Macular Degeneration Resource Books
 Custom Search There are many great macular degeneration resource books to help guide and instruct you in the prevention, treatment and every day living of this macular eye disease.
Books, written by macular degeneration specialists and patients who have adapted to their disease, offer so much insight and information regarding all aspects of this degenerative eye disease. May we remind you that a small commission is sent to WebRN-MacularDegeneration.com each time you buy from one of our resources (like Amazon) when you have gone to their site by clicking on one of the links. Please realize this helps us to be able to continue this website by offering you free articles, answers to questions and what we hope is useful information. Thank you for your support.
Macular Degeneration Prevention
Save Your Sight! : Natural Ways to Prevent and Reverse Macular Degeneration by Marc R. Rose, M.D. and Michael R. Rose, M.D.
This book is about nutrition and eye health in general and includes information on other eye conditions, such as glaucoma. It has excellent information if you are interested in the role of nutrition as it pertains to the eye and to the retina. It is not just about macular degeneration as the title suggests. I thought it was a very helpful and informative book on nutrition and my husband and I will be incorporating some of their suggestions into our diet. Those who were disappointed in the book were those who had already been diagnosed with macular degeneration and I think were seeking to see their condition reversed using nutrition. You can read the other reviews at Amazon.
Natural and Complementary Eye CareNatural Eye Care: Your Guide to Healthy Vision is written by Marc Grossman, OD, L.Ac. and Michael Edson, MS, L.Ac.Dr. Grossman is a Doctor of Optometry and New York State Licensed Acupuncturist and has co-authored several other books as well. If you are looking for more natural approaches to preventing or managing common eye conditions like macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, dry eyes, floaters and more you will find this book very helpful. This book offers information on eye exercises, self acupressure, and recommendations for diet and supplements on over 20 different eye conditions, including macular degeneration. To learn more about this book and other books by Dr. Grossman click here: Oriental Medicine / Vision Reference Books Macular Degeneration Lutein"Bilberry and Lutein - The Vision Enhancers" by Beth Ley, Ph.D. presents the science and research behind the importance of these two antioxidants. It is an easy to read little book that presents information on how to get these antioxidants in your diet, the suggested amounts for supplementation and the research behind it.
Macular Degeneration Doctor
This very comprehensive macular degeneration book, Macular Degeneration - The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight is written by Dr. Lylas Mogk, the founding director of Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center and a board certified ophthalmologist. She also is a caregiver to her father who is living with macular degeneration.
I found this book to be the most comprehensive when it comes to treatment and rehabilitation. There is quite a bit of good information on nutrition as well. I like using her book as a reference book because it covers so many topics from treatment, to surgeries to clinical trials. It is easy to look up the different subjects in the index.
Macular Degeneration SpecialistDr. Michael A. Samuel is a retinal surgeon who practices in Columbus, Ohio at The Retina Group. In the past he was an attending physician and assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at the Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia.His expertise is in age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment and diabetic retinopathy. The macular degeneration resource book, Macular Degeneration - a Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families, includes chapters on diagnosis, treatment, and life after vision loss. It is easy to read and offers great information to help you or a loved one better understand the disease, treatment options for macular degeneration, nutrition and nutritional supplements, and resources.
Retina DoctorYet, another board certified ophthalmologist, Dr. James Folk is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at The University of Iowa. Having written over 125 scientific papers and books, he is a world renowned researcher, clinician and educator in the field of macular degeneration.The book is co-authored by Dr. mark Wilkinson who is an associate professor in the same department who is an expert in low vision rehabilitation. If you are looking for a book to help you better understand this retinal disease and how it develops this is a great book for you. The chapters on "A Description of AMD," "What Causes AMD," and "Treatments for Wet Form of AMD" are very thorough. As a researcher he bases his information on the many studies and clinical trials regarding this disease. There is less information in this book on diet and nutrition compared to Macular Degeneration - The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight by Dr. Lylas Mogk or Macular Degeneration - a Complete Guide for Patients and Their Families.
Living with Macular Degeneration
If you or a family member have been diagnosed with macular degeneration, you will want to read about living with macular degeneration from a patient's perspective - that book would be
The First Year - Age Related Macular Degeneration by Daniel L. Roberts.
Mr. Roberts is the founding director of MD Support, Inc. He cares deeply about helping others who are living with macular degeneration. He not only talks about the medical aspects of this eye condition - but the emotional aspects and the practical ones as well. My favorite chapter of this macular degeneration resource book is Learning from Living: Seeing Well with AMD. Mr. Roberts offers so much hope and possibility of how to live successfully and independently with macular degeneration.
Super Foods for General and Eye Health
Super Foods written by David Wolfe is a fantastic book for those who are really interested in the role of nutrition and health. We had already started including goji berries and goji berry juice into our diet, but after reading his chapter on all of the nutritional benefits of this one berry, this fruit will be eaten more than just occassionally. He states that, "Goji berries contain perhaps the highest concentration of the eyesight improving antioxidant zeaxanthin of any natural superfood or herbal product currently on the market." Each chapter on a superfood tells about the nutritional value of the superfood, how it benefits the body, what to look for when purchasing it and ways to incorporate it into your diet.
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